On Nov. 5, voters across the U.S. cast final ballots that will set the direction of the country, state and local municipalities for years to come. Heading into Election Day, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump were locked in a tight race for the White House, and control of both the U.S. Senate and House was hanging in the balance.

The video was slowed and noticeably dark bags were added under Harris' eyes. The original footage shows Harris speaking and looking normally.

Most voters – whether for Trump or Harris – say the elections were run and administered well, both in their local communities and across the country.

A judge has ordered Fulton County DA Fani Willis to turn over records related to her election interference probe following a lawsuit from a conservative legal group.

Voters were about equally likely to vote in person on Election Day, early in person, or absentee or by mail. Early in-person voting rose in both parties.

Only 187 votes separated the victor from the loser in the race for the 13th Congressional District in California in

Individual candidate and campaign dynamics can certainly account for some of this. In Arizona, for instance, Republican Kari Lake’s broad unpopularity clearly gave an extra boost to Democrat Ruben Gallego, who actually received more votes than Vice President Kamala Harris did at the top of their party’s ticket.

Here are the last House races to be decided: California election officials said every ballot had been counted, the Associated Press reported. Republican Rep. John Duarte ultimately came up fewer than 200 votes short to Gray. The two faced off in 2022, when Gray lost by fewer than 600 votes.

Service-oriented companies in the U.S. grew in November at the slowest pace in three months, reflecting uncertainty about how the incoming Trump administration will affect the economy.

A Monday social media post from progressive think tank Carolina Forward claimed Republican lawmakers are “preparing to vacate” the state Supreme Court election. In a thread posted to X and BlueSky, the group suggested the General Assembly would “openly overturn the voters’ will.”

Former Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in the Georgia 2020 election meddling case against the president-elect and others, is trying to invalidate that plea.